Brigitte Gueyraud

“Brigitte’s work has a timeless beauty and penetrating depth that makes it unforgettable.  Her paintings are the life in my house.” — Pierre B.

BRIGITTE GUEYRAUD was born in Morocco, and spent some of her childhood on a farm in the Alps. Since 1978 she has lived in Paris, where she has dedicated herself to painting. Her artistic inspiration has been nourished by these different cultures. In addition, for many years she worked in geriatric care facilities. There she has been confronted on a daily basis with suffering, illness and death.

In her art she meditates without morbidity on these aspects of human destiny. They inhabit her portraits, as well as her representations of animals, her landscapes and her luminous still lifes.

Though she makes use of gouache, watercolors and acrylics, her primary medium is oil painting, using the old masters’ traditional techniques of glazing. She has also been combining mixed techniques and digigraphy for the last 8 years.

Brigitte says:

“To paint is still and always to approach the mystery of life, to share our human condition. Among my various pictorial researches I created portraits of people of all ages. I have been particularly moved by children’s innocent joy, by the raw, essential emotions of people of advanced age. I want to express with my paintings and drawings what they experience, and to enter their world. My aim is to paint portraits with a force that captures the subject’s intensity and conveys their underlying reality.”